Improvement in washing-machines



D. B. POND.

Washing-Machines.

NO. 138,928. Patented Win/13,1873

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL B. POND, OF WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT m WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,928, dated May 13,1873 application filed April 12, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL B. POND, of Woonsocket, in the county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawingmaking a part of this specification, and to the letters andfigurs ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a sectional view of mywashing-machine. Fig. 2 is front view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 aredetails.

This invention has relation to washing-machines, and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement of the flexible corrugated cylinder,having mesh es or interstices through its wall for the passage of thewater, and in connection therewith of the spring-rolls and frame.

In the accompanying drawing the letter A designates the side bars of theframe, which are connected by suitable transverse rounds or bars, I).From the ends of the side bars extend outward the journals 0, by whichthe frame is secured to the tub, suitable eye-pieces, (I, being attachedto the walls thereof for this purpose. The cylinder-shaft g is designedto extend through and beyond the side-piecesf and is furnished with acrank, h, at one e'nd. The cylinder K is formed by securing wirecloth orother suitable meshed or flexible interwovenor perforated material tothe shouldered edges of the heads L, thus forming a fluted or corrugatedcylinder of such material, through the interstices of which the sudswill freely pass. Stretched longitudinally from head to head along theoutside wall of the cylinder K are the leading tapes m. These arepreferably arranged in the depressions or hollows of the corrugations,and serve to lead the goods between the cylinder and the rolls.

A slot, at, is made lengthwise in each sidebar, I

A, near its middle portion, serving to receive the projection or journalq, of the frame 4, of the rolls 8. This frame extends across the sidebars and is attached by each end thereto by means of suitable springs,a. The frame of the rolls consists of the side bars t and the bentconnecting-rods w, which extend parallel with the rolls, which arejournaled to the side bars 1;, and underneath the same.

This Washing-machine operates with advantage. The pressure upon therolls is not rigid but flexible, giving to the goods when they arepacked together, and at the same time pressing outward against the goodswhen the folds do not lie so thickly. The interstices readily permit thepassage of the suds and of the particles of soil, and the latter are,therefore, not liable to be ground into the goods. By means of the tapesthe goods may be advantageously arranged with reference to the length ofthe cylinder. In washing, the goods can be led through between thecylinder and rolls, and then, the motion being reversed, can

be untwined or carried in the opposite direction without entanglement.Thus both sides of the goods are arranged to be operated on withcertainty.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The washing-machine having the springrollers and the cylinder K,consisting of the shouldered ends and the wire-cloth, or similar meshedflexible material connecting said ends, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL B. POND. Witnesses:

AMos SHENMAN, J R. S. S. 000K.

